Palehosefan

Yeah I'll get my posse and we will rumble. PHF + =

lol I'll just stop, but thanks for the link. I've been arguing over this all day, I'm gonna try my best to give it a rest.

Who knows where that site got that from, I searched for his minor league stats for a while and thats the only one I could find. Still good numbers in AAA, we can agree to disagree now and see what happens in the season :-).

Here is his 2002 minor league season, so I guess I don't see the point. If you are saying he can't be a good player because he spent so long in the minors, what does it matter? If he is hitting well in the minors and .275 career hitter in over 320 MLB games, why do you still want to doubt him? Just for the heck of it? http://www.sportplanet.com/sbb/fdbl/wallma...ers/misc/94.htm

Wanted to add, don't forget Scott's lifetime numbers. .275 average, .343 OBP, 188 runs in 327 games. Last year could have been a sophomore slump, we will have to see.

Without a top of the line starter, I give the offseason a failing grade. Getting Dye is good, Hermanson is solid. Lee for Pod, Vaz, and PTBNL is incomplete without a good pitching signing. Without one, that trade doesn't impress me. With it, I think we are definitely a better ball club.

There is no reason to think Pod won't score as many or more than 85 runs this year, which was more than all but Rowand and Lee, neither led off for us. Still doesn't change the fact that Pod gave Brewers hitters more than 100 chances to knock him in from 2nd or 3rd base. Carlos was in his prime this year with a good scoring ballclub and still managed under 100 rbi's. Anyways, we can argue about this all day with numbers back and forth. We will see if the trade ends up helping us. Thanks for the congrats though

Here's some info from BA about the trade. "One Brewers official at the Winter Meetings said Podsednik tried to hit for power too frequently in 2004, which resulted in more homers (he hit nine in 2003) but a worse approach at the plate (his on-base percentage dipped 66 points). A good center fielder with an average arm, he may push Aaron Rowand to an outfield corner in Chicago. Podsednik signed a contract extension in May that will pay him $550,000 in 2005 and $1.9 million in 2006. In 327 major league games, he has hit .275/.343/.400 with 22 homers, 105 RBIs and 113 steals. Vizcaino was the Brewers' best setup man and the second key member of the bullpen traded in the last three days, following the deal that sent closer Dan Kolb to the Braves. The Brewers invested the money they saved in that move (which netted prized minor league righthander Jose Capellan) in this trade. A 30-year-old righthander, Vizcaino had 21 holds in 2004, when he went 4-4, 3.75 in 73 appearances. Opponents hit .228 with 12 homers against him, and he struck out 63 and walked 24 in 72 innings. He works up in the strike zone with mid-90s fastballs that are hard to catch up to, but when hitters do he's vulnerable to homers. His second pitch is a slider. After making $550,000 in 2004, he's eligible for arbitration. Vizcaino's big league record is 15-12, 4.52 with seven saves and 52 holds in 273 games. "

The Sox signed Dye to help fill the power left behind from Carlos. But Carlos' average season as a Sox was .287 average 27 homers and 94 rbi's, he's not exactly a superstar slugger. He hit the 100 rbi mark all of 1 time on one of the best offensive teams in baseball the past 5 years. Pod won't make up for CLee's numbers, but he will give others a chance to improve their numbers by knocking him in from 2B or a sac fly from 3B. Did anyone think we would be a good offensive team even without Frank and Magglio? I didn't, but we still put up nearly 900 runs on the season with Magglio and Frank missing 198 games. You can put an average offensive team and score 800+ runs here, we aren't going to be hurting for runs, we just have to figure out how to stop to many, the money better help.

We aren't playing "smallball" though, thats a misconception. Konerko, Crede, Uribe, Rowand, Dye, and Thomas all have 20+ HR power. Pod will add 10, and the catchers and 2B will add 10 HR's. To be conservative. Pod, 10 HR Uribe, 20 HR Thomas, 30 HR Konerko, 30 HR Rowand, 22 HR Dye, 22 HR Crede 22 HR Davis 6 HR Harris? 1 HR Thats 163 homers on a conservative side. Not to mention bench guys like Everett, Gload, and Perez will contribute a few. We aren't becoming the Expos or the Tigers by any stretch of the imagination. We still have power, and now we have added more speed.

Geoff hit .264, and Counsell .241, Lyle hit .301 with 16 homers and 87 rbi's. Thats not a whole lot of run producers. Heck only 3 guys on the entire team scored over 60 runs, thats just sad.

St. Louis outscored opponents by 196 runs, Boston outscored opponents by 181. We only outscored opponents by 34 runs on the entire season, do you think no changes would have made that any better? Podsednik will give us a chance to score some runs, maybe not as many as Carlos, its debatable, but the trade also gave us flexibility to fix our main problem, which was starting pitching. Its very debatable whether Pod, Viz, and PTBNL were enough for CLee, but what we do with the money is what will determine the real value of the trade.

Thats very overrated, it doesn't matter how many at-bats a player gets, the runs are the only thing that matters. Does it really matter if the guy scores a run after walking or by stealing a base? Does that change anything? Its still a run. He still scored 85 runs on a horrible rbi team.

Nobody should be arguing that either. The Yankees and Bosox don't steal bases because they have powerhouse lineups that don't need someone on 2nd or 3rd to hit a HR and drive them in. Its basically an un needed risk to attempt steals for power hitting teams. We are going to try to manufacturer runs and good basestealers will be an asset. I'll take it a step further. Pod scored 13.4% of the Brewers runs, our top run scorer Carlos scored 11.9% of our runs.

Brewers 634 runs White Sox 865 runs I'll take it a step further. Pod scored 13.4% of the Brewers runs, our top run scorer Carlos scored 11.9% of our runs.

Even when I counted only 35 steals, his slugging% improved to something like .427, which wasn't bad at all either. Either way he gave his teammates over 100 chances to knock him in from 2nd or 3rd.

He's 23 and is a 6'4 190 pound lefty that pitched well in Low-A but otherwise wasn't great. http://web.indstate.edu/athletics/baseball/mitchstetter.html http://www.kettleers.org/bios01/stetter.htm http://www.barnstable-patriot.com/06-21-02...etspitcher.html

I've been arguing with other fans about stuff like this. I believe the SLG% I found was .473 with 303 total bases in 640 at-bats if you count the SB's. They made a point that a single and a steal isn't really the same as a double because you don't drive in as many with a single and a steal.

I'm jealous. Can I beat up Spiff and take his posts?

Hey hey, get back on topic here, its fire not intellectual gibberish. FIRE!!!!

I have been using Netflix for a while now because of Blockbusters late charges. I once had a 40 dollar late charge because they lost the game after it was stuck in the return chute.

lol I've always wanted to burn some of these books, so that will work out well.

Tell me about it, I'm stuck with 16 books I'll never need.

lmao, I gotta go with this one.

lol thats cool Jason, I finally gave up on it. I'll just show you sometime when I get it posted on my bro's website I designed in Flash.